but what is "politics" and what is "current events" and what is just "Pub talk"?. What about politics in the religious arena, like "City Hall bans Nativity and Christmas Tree" and "Pelosi says Catholics have a conscience thing"? What about Occupy Wall Street?

in Brazil, there are bars where you see signs saying something to the effect of "No talk of Sex, Religion, Politics, or Soccer"..

So basically there are pubs where talking is banned entirely?

yeah, but that doesn't stop anyone from talking about those things..

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yeah, you see it around town, in bars... the talk of sex, sometimes you see it mentioned, other times no.. those brazilian bar signs are great, but many of them get lost in translation.. for example, back in the US I saw signs "Free (whatever) when the Sox win the Series". so whenever a team here goes through a rough patch you see "You can buy on credit whenever XXXXX wins the title"some just aren't mentionable in mixed company..

_________________Where is the invisible hand when it is needed to administer a good smack?!?St. Josemaría Escrivá:These world crises are crises of saints

Therefore, if God wills that we be struck down by some affliction, take it as a sign that he considers us mature enough to be associated even more closely with his redeeming Cross.

Stand up against lies heresy and distortion: I DON'T BELIEVE Michael Sean Winters or NCR Online

but what is "politics" and what is "current events" and what is just "Pub talk"?. What about politics in the religious arena, like "City Hall bans Nativity and Christmas Tree" and "Pelosi says Catholics have a conscience thing"? What about Occupy Wall Street?

in Brazil, there are bars where you see signs saying something to the effect of "No talk of Sex, Religion, Politics, or Soccer"..

So basically there are pubs where talking is banned entirely?

Nice weather we are having.... (I suppose that could end badly if global warming is brought up!)

"[D]econstruction is a relentless, if sometimes indirect, discourse on democracy, on a democracy to come. Derrida’s democracy is a radically pluralistic polity that resists the terror of an organic, ethnic, spiritual unity, of the natural, native bonds of the nation (natus, natio), which grind to dust everything that is not a kin of the ruling kind and genus (Geschlecht)." John D. Caputo

"[D]econstruction is a relentless, if sometimes indirect, discourse on democracy, on a democracy to come. Derrida’s democracy is a radically pluralistic polity that resists the terror of an organic, ethnic, spiritual unity, of the natural, native bonds of the nation (natus, natio), which grind to dust everything that is not a kin of the ruling kind and genus (Geschlecht)." John D. Caputo

Or maybe it is just the nature of satire that the people who are targeted by it tend not to like it...

I love Catholic and Marxist jokes. Maybe I am less sensitive than most people.

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"[D]econstruction is a relentless, if sometimes indirect, discourse on democracy, on a democracy to come. Derrida’s democracy is a radically pluralistic polity that resists the terror of an organic, ethnic, spiritual unity, of the natural, native bonds of the nation (natus, natio), which grind to dust everything that is not a kin of the ruling kind and genus (Geschlecht)." John D. Caputo

in Brazil, there are bars where you see signs saying something to the effect of "No talk of Sex, Religion, Politics, or Soccer"..

So basically there are pubs where talking is banned entirely?

IDK about pubs, but there's a hilarious scene in the Sherlock episode "The Reichenbach Fall" in which John Watson is brought to the Diogenes Club for a meeting with Mycroft Holmes. John's trying to find Mycroft, and winds up being unceremoniously hauled out because John didn't know about the club's rule of silence.

I tried to post a clip, but couldn't find one.

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